Skipping execution of -with- block

Question

I am defining a context manager class and I would like to be able to skip the block of code without raising an exception if certain conditions are met during instantiation.

Answer 1

If you want an ad-hoc solution that uses the ideas from withhacks (specifically from AnonymousBlocksInPython), this will work:

import sys
import inspect

class My_Context(object):
    def __init__(self,mode=0):
        """
        if mode = 0, proceed as normal
        if mode = 1, do not execute block
        """
        self.mode=mode
    def __enter__(self):
        if self.mode==1:
            print 'Met block-skipping criterion ...'
            # Do some magic
            sys.settrace(lambda *args, **keys: None)
            frame = inspect.currentframe(1)
            frame.f_trace = self.trace
    def trace(self, frame, event, arg):
        raise
    def __exit__(self, type, value, traceback):
        print 'Exiting context ...'
        return True

Compare the following:

with My_Context(mode=1):
    print 'Executing block of code ...'

with

with My_Context(mode=0):
    print 'Executing block of code ... '